Creely

This is an action in which the plaintiff sought to recover from the defendant $10,569.66 for personal services alleged to have been rendered by him to said defendant in several capacities during a series of years.

The complaint is in three counts, the first count averring an indebtedness amounting to $7,190 for the plaintiff’s professional services as an attorney at law; the second count averring an indebtedness of $3,325.66 as a balance due for services in the nature of those performed by an attorney in fact in connection with -the management, superintendence, and conduct of several properties of the defendant during the years from 1910 to 1914, inclusive; the third account for services and fees as a notary public aggregating the sum of $54. The answer put in issue all of the averments of the complaint, and also presented a plea of the statute of limitations as a bar to each and every item in the plaintiff’s several counts. The trial was had before a jury, which returned a general verdict in the plaintiff’s favor for the sum of $8,900, for which sum judgment was entered. The defendant moved for a new trial, which came on regularly to be heard, and upon the hearing of which the…